Red-hot favourite Racy won the opening EBF Poppin Lane Maiden Stakes at Pontefract today under a hands-and-heels ride by champion jockey Ryan Moore.

Graham Wylie watched Eton Rifles win the totepool Supports Variety Club Conditions' Stakes at Hamilton - but is already looking forward to the jumps season getting into full swing.

Kieren Fallon showed he was back to his best with a brilliant display to land a 21-1 double on the opening day of the Ladbrokes St Leger Festival at Doncaster today.

Firebet succeeded where Harbinger and Urban Poet had so abjectly failed by building on his run in the Gordon Stakes with a win at Epsom on Bank Holiday Monday.

Ruth Carr has her horses in cracking form and she sent out her fifth winner in six days when completing a double with the tough and consistent sprinters Moheebb and Red Cape at Ripon today.

Crack Australian rider Clare Lindop partnered her second British winner on just her third outing as Medicean Man ran away with the Simpson Millar Family Law Service Maiden Stakes at Doncaster.

Noel Wilson attributed Pavershooz’s victory in the Piramal Healthcare Gosforth Park Cup at Newcastle to a rather unusual “lucky omen”.

Willie Muir had to send Nemo Spirit on a 400-mile round trip to find suitable ground but the journey paid off as he put up a brave front-running performance to win the £17,000 (€19,950) Blue Square Stakes under William Buick at York.

David Nicholls has his team in good form and he wasted no time in adding to his score when Falasteen gained a convincing success in the opening Acturis EBF Maiden Stakes at York.

Top young apprentice Frederik Tylicki has been hit with a 20-day ban after falling foul of the ’totting up’ procedure for whip offences.

Mark Johnston has a great record at Hamilton and he was on top form in Scotland again with a treble courtesy of Count Paris, Quai D'Orsay and Always Bold.